Engineered and total biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)61–78
Number of pages18
JournalNature Reviews Chemistry
Volume8
Issue number1
Early online date3 Jan 2024
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2024

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Filamentous fungi produce a very wide range of complex and often bioactive metabolites, demonstrating their inherent ability as hosts of complex biosynthetic pathways. Recent advances in molecular sciences related to fungi have afforded the development of new tools that allow the rational total biosynthesis of highly complex specialized metabolites in a single process. Increasingly, these pathways can also be engineered to produce new metabolites. Engineering can be at the level of gene deletion, gene addition, formation of mixed pathways, engineering of scaffold synthases and engineering of tailoring enzymes. Combination of these approaches with hosts that can metabolize low-value waste streams opens the prospect of one-step syntheses from garbage. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

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Engineered and total biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites. / Cox, Russell J.
In: Nature Reviews Chemistry, Vol. 8, No. 1, 01.2024, p. 61–78.

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Cox RJ. Engineered and total biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 2024 Jan;8(1):61–78. Epub 2024 Jan 3. doi: 10.1038/s41570-023-00564-0
Cox, Russell J. / Engineered and total biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites. In: Nature Reviews Chemistry. 2024 ; Vol. 8, No. 1. pp. 61–78.
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